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PMG Potter Names New Chief Postal Inspector And Finance VP

 

Arbitrator Reassigns Postal Supervisor For Violating Workplace Violence Policy

 

NALC Branch VP: Limited Duty Carriers Suffer The Ultimate Harm

 

Gamefly Accuses USPS Of Preferential Treatment For Netflix and Blockbuster

 

USPS Seeks Suppliers For Electric Vehicle Conversion of LLVs

 

USPS Seeking Contractor To Create New ID Cards For Postal Employees

 

USPS Cancels Associate Supervisor Program

 

San Francisco Passes First ‘Do Not Mail’ Resolution in Nation

 

Oakland APWU Urges Congress To Investigate The Postal Service

 

PMG Potter Says Reducing Delivery From Six to Five Days Could Save USPS $3.5 Billion Annually

 

USPS Closing Six Districts, Eliminating 1,400 EAS Positions And Offering Early Retirement

 

USPS To ‘Outsource’ Change-of-Address Program?

 

Postmaster Setting Unrealistic Expectations May Serve As Grounds To File EEO Complaint

 

USPS OIG’S Review Of Postal Managers Unnecessary Purchases

 

Statement of NALC President On Compliance with National Agreement - Let Let me make the following clear to one and all, including Postal Service management at headquarters and in the field, and all letter carriers, at every level in the union and in every post office: No one, at any level, has any authority to amend or violate the national contract, period. PMG Potter memo on honoring contract (PDF). It is up to each one of us to make sure that the changes we bring to the organization are changes for the better,” Potter recently wrote. Respecting and protecting the provisions of the collective-bargaining agreements will help us to do that  |

 

NALC: There Are No Plans To Eliminate Six-Day Delivery

 

USPS: Declining Mail Volume Leads to Route Adjustments

 

Report: Employment of Veterans in the U.S.  Postal Service - FY 2007

 

PRC Annual Report: Postal Execs Compensation

 

USPS Says It Needs To Eliminate 9,200 City Carrier Routes in FY 2009

 

Postmaster, Supervisor Groups Reject Pay Freeze (PDF)

 

Tight Times Strain Postmasters

 

USPS, APWU Reach Tentative Agreement On Four-Day Workweeks

 

USPS Wants Commercial Outdoor Advertising On Its Property

 

USPS to Implement Two Tour Initiative Nationwide

 

Re: Postal Employees Ordered to Stop Offering First-Class Mail

 

PMG Urges Leaders of Employee Organizations To Work With USPS

 

Flashback: Postal 1992 VER Cost $1.01 Billion

 

USPS To Launch Nationwide Program To Track Revenue Performance Of Window Clerks

 

Postmaster General Cautions of Perfect Economic Storm

 

Connecticut Congressman Presses Postal Service for Answers Regarding Meriden Route Changes

 

Appeals Court Upholds Firing Of Postal Carrier For Unsafe Driving  

 

GAO: New Delivery Performance Measures Could Enhance Postal Managers’ Pay for Performance Program

 

Postal Manager Demoted Over Violation of NALC Contract?

 

Postal Worker's Self-Defense Claim Can't Save Job

 

NAPS Challenges USPS Network Plan, Questions USPS Outsourcing

 

USPS Posts $1.1 Billion Loss For Third Quarter

 

House Passes FERS Sick Leave Legislation

 

GAO: Data Needed to Assess the Effectiveness of USPS Outsourcing |  Watchdogs question US Post Office outsourcing system

 

USPS Names Two Postal Execs To New VP Slots

 

USPS Releases Details Of Voluntary Early Retirement Offer

 

Burrus: Employees Would Be Best Served by Postponing Early-Out Decisions

 

NALC: Young Urges Congress to Reject Study for 5-Day Delivery

 

USPS Early Out Offer Excludes ETs - No Cash Incentives

 

PMG Potter Announces Reorganization At USPS Headquarters

 

House Committee Approves Study On Ending Saturday Mail Delivery

 

EEOC: Postal Worker Was Not Provided Smoke-Free Vehicle

 

ASFM-100 Work Awarded Back to Clerk Craft at Trenton P&DC

 

Court of Appeals Keeps Alive 14-Year-Old Lawsuit Against NALC

 

Postal Service Selects First-Ever Vice President of Sustainability

 

Video: Postal Workers Protest Terrorism On The Job

 

EEOC Rules USPS Must Process Class Action Complaint For Rehab Postal Employees

 

OPM Submits Proposal To Create Short-Term Disability Insurance Program

 

To Err Is Not Human for Demoted Postal Supervisor

 

USPS Resolves Dispute With Unions Over Computer Security Rules

 

USPS Selects Former Halliburton Executive As New CIO

 

Big Pay Increases Approved For Top Postal Service Officers

 

USPS Retail Cost Cutting (PDF)

 

 click here to read the award (PDF)   | A Short Comparison of USPS Contracts With APWU, NPMHU, NALC and NRLCA  |

 

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June 22, 2009

Editorial: Postal Service Must Enter 21st Century

Europe's increasingly privatized mail services offer exciting examples of postal possibilities in the 21st century. They are leaner and greener than the U.S. service because they work with, not against, the Internet. Such are the steps the U.S. Postal Service might take if it were a real company and not a hybrid hamstrung by a large and heavily unionized workforce, congressional management, and an antiquated business model. |

 

OIG Reviews Estimates of Postal Service’s Liability for Retiree Health Care Benefits - If the Postal Service continues the payment schedule required by the Act, calculations by the Hay Group indicate that the Postal Service could overfund its retiree health care liability by $5.6 billion by the end of fiscal year 2016. The Postal Service could pay on average $3.3 billion less each year from FYs 2009 to 2016 to prefund its retiree health benefits and still achieve the same level of funding anticipated under OPM’s assumptions.  |

 

CBO Report Pegs Cost Of Modifying Retirement Benefits Calculation For CSRS Part-Time Employees - Under current law, a CSRS employee with service prior to April 7, 1986, who works part-time at the end of his or her career may receive a lower annuity than an otherwise identical employee whose part-time service occurred earlier. S. 469 would change the calculation of retirement benefits for employees with part-time service to treat all service the same.   |

 

Local post offices feel the pressure

Movement on H.R. 22?
PRC issues Final Rules on Confidentiality

Editorial: The Letter Carrier

CAUSEY: Workers win some, lose some on Hill
Mail stops early for July 4 holiday
Body removed from Pierre (SD) PO
Postage hikes force firms to cut costs
USPS OIG : Hollywood’s Take on the Postal Service

SF: Embarcadero Postal Center Letter Carriers Moving Out

Mail trucks deliver without a license

Downsizing the post offices

Contract Driver arrested in mail theft case

 

June 21, 2009

Bills Introduced To Provide “Free-Mail-To-Troops” Postage Benefit - Legislation—H.R. 704 (and the identical H.R. 2126) and H.R. 707—has been introduced in the 111th Congress to establish a free-mail-to-troops postage benefit. Each of these bills would provide members of the Armed Forces serving overseas with free-postage vouchers every month. Recipients of these vouchers would be able to transfer them to family members or other persons in the United States, who then could use the vouchers to mail a letter or package to the troops postage-free. The DOD would provide advance transfers of funds to the USPS to cover the Postal Service’s costs in delivering the mail to the APOs and FPOs  |

 

APWU, USPS Eliminate Face-to-Face Step 3 Grievance Meetings

An article by Steve Zamanakos, APWU Denver Region Clerk NBA : "NBAs all across the country have been relegated to the telemarketers abyss. Effective in June, all Step 3 meetings and Direct Appeal meetings must now be conducted over the phone." The officers at Headquarters APWU tell us in the field that this latest agreement to meet over the phone is being done as a "cost saving" measure.   |

 

 I've got the blue postal box blues

Mailboxes are dying faster than houseflies that mess with Barack Obama. The U.S. Postal Service has taken a use-it-or-lose-it approach to the collection boxes. If a box can't attract at least 25 pieces of mail a day on average, it's toast. There's no hiding from the density tests that are being conducted.   |

 

Marine gets a not-so-special delivery

 

June 20, 2009

Troubled USPS eyes help from Congress

The U.S. Postal Service is projecting a loss exceeding $6 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, which puts retiree health benefit contributions in jeopardy unless a bill is passed by the U.S. Congress."  |

 

In New Jersey, Many Post Offices May Be Marked for Closing

The Postal Service, whose finances have taken a beating as electronic communication has overtaken paper correspondence, has marked hundreds of post offices across the country for closing." Westchester: Postal History |  Long Island: Starting in a Shed  |

 

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